MS 246

APOLLINARIS SIDONIUS: EPISTOLAE ET CARMINA

MS in Latin on vellum, Leon?, North Spain, 2nd half of 12th c., 132 ff. (complete), 24x17 cm, single column, (20x12 cm), 32-33 lines in Romanesque book script, headings and initial letter on every line in red, 2-line initials in red, 10 large decorated initials in ropework or leafy pattern in colours, 2 large historiated initials in colours.

Binding: France, 17th c. red velvet over wooden boards, sewn on 5 bands.

Provenance: 1. Balthazard de Villars (1557-1627); 2. Lord Mostyn, (until 1920); 3. Sotheby's 13.7.1920:108; 4. Edmund Hunt Dring, Surrey (1920-1928); 5. Edmund Maxwell Dring, Surrey (1928-1989); 6. Quaritch, London.

Commentary: The MS contains the complete works of Sidonius, i.e. all the poems (24 Carmina), and the 147 letters, which is rare. There are 4 major text families, which derive from a lost archetype of the 8th c. The earliest surviving MSS are of the 10th c. In private hands, Sidonius is only recorded in The Schřyen Collection, MS 1650/2 of the 10th c., MS 1650/1 of the 11th c. and MS 246 of the 12th c.

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